May - the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland

34 The Free Presbyterian Magazine.
much more important than that of conscience. He insinuates
that while men who prosecute heretics are strong on the side of
conscience, they are weak on that of learning. Rightly or wrongly,
we have always been under the impression that the question of
conscience does not weigh very heavily on the minds of those who
belong to Dr. Herkless's school. The Professor of Church
History at St. Andrew's might read with advantage O'Conor's
Ethics of Moderate Criticism, from which he may glean that men
with higher critical views who have signed such a well defined
document as the Westminster Confession, have to face a question
of ethics that is much more serious and important than that of
acquiring great stores of erudition.
Cheap Reprints.-In recent times there has been a great
revolution in the issue of cheap books. The ruling powers of
infidelity were quick to recognise the significance of the change
and were not slow in flooding the country with cheap reprints of
an atheistic tendency. Fortunately the new methods of book
pn;)duction have come to the aid of lovers of good literature,
though itis to be acknowledged that among the cheap reprints
issued fiction occupies a very prominent place. Our main
interest, however, in the matter is to call attention to one or two
highly interesting and instructive reprints recently issued for the
small sum of sixpence. These include Life of Dr. John G. Paton,
published by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, and Dr. Adolph
Saphir's Christ and the Scriptures. Messrs. Nelson have also
issued recently a sixpenny edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, cloth
bound.
Free Church Ministers and Objections to Admission
of Ministers, etc., Overture.-We have received a letter
per solicitors from Revs. Dr. M'Fadden, Dumbarton, and W. S.
Heron, Partick, complaining of the last paragraph in the criticism
of Free Church proceedings, which appears in the March number,
and assuming among other things, that we suggest that they are
unsound on the infallibility and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures
and purity of worship. Their assumption is entirely unwarranted.
We took our report from the F. C. Record, in which it was stated
without qualification that Dr. M'Fadden moved, and Mr. Heron
seconded, the disapproval of an "Overture anent Admission of
Ministers and Probationers and Repeal of Diverse Acts of.
Assembly." In order to show the gravity of the Overture, we .
wrote :-" This Overture provides, among other things, that
candidates for admission be believers in the infallibility and
inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, and in purity of worshipto
the exclusion of uninspired hymns and instrumental music;"
and we then added in another sentence, "One would like to
know-and the people of the Free Church ought te knowwhat
are the objections of such men as Dr. M'Fadden and
Mr. Heron to this Overture." We did not insinuate they were
unsound on the points specified, but left absolute room for the